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You know, where you can frolic with foxes. Opened in 1990 and located in Miyagi Prefecture, "Zao Fox Village" is a sanctuary home to over a hundred free-roaming foxes, including the silver fox and the platinum fox as well as the Japanese red fox.

Testifying to the significance of Monty Oum, the New York Times have published both an obituary and an arts section article on the animator's tragic death at age 33. His colleagues at Rooster Teeth have also shared a special tribute to the artist...

The library of Dragon Ball Z games is so large that, if stacked end to end, is likely to stretch all the way to the moon--that is, if someone hadn&rsquo;t blown it up. Each game follows the same script from the series, allowing you to play as Goku...

Last week, we took a sneak peek at the upcoming Sapporo Snow Festival by checking out an icy rendering of an idol trio from hit anime Love Live! Freaked out as we were by their unfinished yet crazed expressions, it turns out Umi, Honoka, and Kotor...

play along with some new characters. Meanwhile, on Atlus' official website, Persona Team producer and director Katsura Hashino has shared a message for fans. Hashino writes:From the Persona 5 development team.

Following the previous twelve, the official website for Live Spectacle Naruto, the upcoming stage play adaptation of Masashi Kishimoto's recently finished action manga series, today added six more more character visuals for Shikamaru Nara (Tsubasa...

Company will handle all merchandise related to the anime Viz Media announced on Thursday that it has been named the North American master merchandise licensee for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime series.

At the end of the 30 hour Persona Livestream and Persona Super Live 2015 concert, a brand new trailer for the highly anticipated Persona 5 was revealed. In addition, the game's official website unveiled a brand new visual was also released, showin...

Ehime girls' rock unit Hime Kyun Fruit Can have collaborated with their local mascot Barysan to form "Barykyun" and have released the MV for the new unit's single "Koi no BRKN" (release date: February 11).

We are almost midway through the Winter 2015 season, and around this time is when people usually decide whether to drop or continue watching some of the season's new anime. Japanese character database, Charapedia, has asked 10,000 anime fans, 51.

We see a lot of unusual things here at RocketNews24, coming in all shapes and sizes, but there is always a little squeal in our hearts when we find a miniature version of…anything. We've talked about mini-bonsai, mini-theater seats, mini-books, mi...

The Winter edition of this year's Wonder Festival will be held at Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba on February 8, 2015, and Kotobukiya has decided to tease fans with what they'll be revealing at the Wonder Festival 2015 Winter this year.

Spring Anime 'Yamada And The Seven Witches' Gets Episode Count Posted by Chris Beveridge February 5, 2015 at 01:25 PM Details about the spring 2015 anime adaptation of the manga Yamada And The 7 Witches continues to trickle in, sometimes but less ...

Scandalous transfer student Marika of Nisekoi dons her stylish bikini as demonstrated in Beach Queen form by Wave – the 15. 5cm tall Marika will hit the beach come the sunny month of July. Marika can be pre-ordered now.

Square Enix have released a new trailer for Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, and it contains a few new scenes from the upcoming demo of Final Fantasy XV. Additionally, Square have confirmed that the demo, titled Final Fantasy XV -Episode Duscae- will ...

Deadline reported that the live-action Robotech film now has new producers and a writer! Robotech is an adaptation of 3 different mecha anime titles. Warner Brothers-based producers Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari (The Departed, 300), and Mark Can...

With just a few days until the second set of the classic Sailor Moon series come out on DVD/BD combo form with the new English language adaptation, Viz Media has dropped a new two minute clip from the work.

The South Korean government recently released a video warning the general pubic about the dangers of video game addition. The 25-second ad, which has already been edited and re-released following complaints about its content, shows the ways in whi...

Forget pretending! Especially when you can throw kamehamehas against a giant screen with nifty graphics and sound effects. Starting this week in Shibuya, there's a Dragon Ball Xenoverse promo in Tokyo.

New 'Tokyo Ghoul √A' Anime Second Phase Promo Arrives Posted by Chris Beveridge February 5, 2015 at 05:21 PM Marvelous Entertainment is doing some more of the heavy lifting in promoting their winter 2015 season with Tokyo Ghoul √A.

The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Durarara! ! has released preview images and the synopsis for the fifth episode of Durarara! ! x2 Shou, the fifth episode of Durarara! ! x2 Shou airs this Saturday at 11:30pm JST on Tokyo MX, GTV...

With great intention, 7-Eleven Japan is selling heart-shaped chocolate steamed buns for Valentine's Day. Priced at just 100 yen (about US$0. 85) after tax, the buns are made with Belgian chocolate and fresh Hokkaido cream, finished with a rich, sm...

Tokyo Ghoul √A - 05 Wai! More effing named characters to keep track of! I saw a comment about this episode (from an ASF poster named Blakstealth, FTR) that sums it up as well, I think, as any can: "I hope the next episode takes some time to expl...

ONE OK ROCK played an invite-only concert in Okinawa on February 1 (Sunday). The band played 14 songs, including new songs, in front of 800 premium ticket holders. The show was presented by Space Shower TV under the concept of "living music, on yo...

This year's 10th issue of Kodansha's Morning magazine is publishing the last chapter of Jinsei Kataoka and Tomohiro Maekawa's Livingstone manga on Thursday. The fourth and final compiled volume will ship on April 23.

We previously saw what Edea from Bravely Default has been up to in the upcoming sequel, Bravely Second, but it still wasn't clear whether she'll be a playable character or not. In the latest live stream by Square Enix and Dengeki, Square confirmed...

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